About James D'Amato

James D’Amato, the world’s foremost Kobold advocate, moved to Chicago in 2010 to train at Second City and iO in the art of improvisational comedy. He now uses that education to introduce new people to role-playing, and teach die-hard Grognards new tricks.
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Just started listening to the episode, but I do believe that “bessim” game is “BESM”, Big Eyes, Small Mouth from the now-defunct Guardians of Order. Heavily based on anime, but it’s a lot like Silver Age Sentinels and the free, completely generic version, Tri-Stat dX. Never had a chance to play, but sounds like SO much fun.

The more I think about it, the more I think that “actors that do not realize they are in a movie anymore and instead are probably about to die” might be a genre, or at least a sub-genre.

Listening to this episode has left me with a BURNING NEED to run “Actual Cannibal Shia Lebouf” for my regular Thursday night crew, and make them PC as THEMSELVES and use the setting of WHERE WE ARE. I think that might actually swing the pendulum from comedy towards horror.

Before I heard this, I completely did not understand why anyone would ever listen to an Actual Play podcast.